Summer storm flooding
in city cemetery,
bodies on the move.
Author's Note: Some readers were confused over the last line. So I changed the title and the last line to make the Haiku more clear. Originally it ;was (bodies by a box) And the title was (Mail Delivery) After the cemetery was flooded, in my mind, I saw God guiding those floating bodies to their loved one's homes, to once more be reunited with them, and for their reburial.
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